Testing w.bloggar
I'm testing a new blogging editor called w.bloggar. The skinny: don't bother.
Read on if you're a masochist.
BlogJet seems superior for two primary reasons related to the way I work. First, it has WYSIWYG editing. Second, it supports the automatic creation of thumbnail images.
The interface for w.bloggar is far more complicated than that of BlogJet but I'm having a hard time figuring out what it can do that BlogJet can't despite that complexity.
Oh, yeh, w.bloggar is free.
You can donate, of course, but if you are going to go and spend money you might as well spend it on BlogJet.
w.bloggar can post draft posts, which BlogJet seems to have a problem with. This is actually good since I'm still under the impression that BlogJet can't do that. I'll have to test that so you may see another small post after this one.
w.bloggar seems to have been built with VB6 which is a crappy language, but it can still produce modern XP-style applications. BlogJet was built with Delphi, I think. It has a XP-style interface but there is one quirk which drives me insane! The menus to not have accelerators. I can't hit Alt + E to pull down the edit menu so I can select Paste Special. I use paste special a lot to remove formatting.
The UI in BlogJet for inserting images is light-years ahead of w.bloggar. Take my word for it. The w.bloggar forums seem dead. On the other hand, BlogJet support is fantastic. Dmitry Chestnykh always gets back to you within 24 hours.
I am finding myself wondering why I continue to write this review. Goodnight.